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ADOLF MANN AND ERNST, SCHFER, OF BARMEN, GERMANY.

SKIRT-PROTECTO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 614,481, dated November 22, 1898.

i Application iiled May 19, 1896. Serial No. 592,194. (Specimens.) Y

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ADOLF MANN and ERNST SOHFER, subjects of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Barmen, Siegesstrasse 26, Rhenish Prussia, Germany, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Skirt-Protector, (for which we have received Letters Patent in England, No. 7,544, dated April 13, 1895,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved dressguard to be attached to the lower edge of ladies gowns in order to protect them from wear and tear at the lower edges. Its particularity resides in the fact that the protector proper is of such a nature and design that it will resist wear and tear in every direction and present to the attacking obstacles or attacking forces always another side, but of same resisting property,whether the dress be pulled forward or backward or slides on the ground in a more orless horizontal direction, and it will equally well resist wear and tear when the dress is held in a vertical direction, standing, as it were, on the dress-guard itself. This is obtained by making the lower edge of the new dress-guard of chenille or tufted cord, from which the threads stand out in all directions radially to the central core, like the hairs of a circular brush. These hairs, however, not only protect the edge of the dress from wear and tear, but at the same ltime they cover the thread by means of which the chenille has been attached to the band or ribbon, forming together with it theA dressguard, and thus protect said thread from wear and tear. These are the two main points in which our new dress-guard or dress-protector differs from other fabrics which have been broughtoutto serveasimilar purpose. While in the old dress-guards the protecting-hairs stand out in one direction onlyna1nely, in the plane of the fastening-ribbon, or deviating from this plane only in a very slight degree, and therefore not being able at all to protect the fastening-threads-it lies in the nature of the chenille that its hairs stand out in all directions and even cover partly the lower part of the fastening-ribbon. The improved fabric 'is preferably made by uniting the chenille to the fastening-strip in the braiding-machine, in which case the chenille forms a central thread or soul, around which certain of the braiding threads or bobbins turn, and thus connect or bind it to the lace part or fastening-strip while this is being made.

The accompanying drawings show in Figure 1 a side view of a short piece of the new fabric. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of Fig. l. Fig. 3 shows the general arrangement of the braiding-machine for making our new dressprotector. Fig. 4 shows the diagram of the meshing of the braiding and binding threads. Fig. 4d is a cross-section of Fig. 4.

From the cross-section Fig. 2 it will be seen that the edge of the fastening-strip is completely surrounded by the radial hairs and the chenille as if sunk into these hairs, and therefore its connecting-threads can only be exposed to wear and tear when the hairs of the chenille are destroyed. In making the chenille therefore special care has to be applied to bind the hairs very firmly, and the connection between the chenille and the other part of the dress-guard must also be done very carefully,so that the connecting-threads form a second binding of the chenille-hairs on their central thread. This we attain by making the new article as indicated by Figs. 3, 4, and 4a. Certain of the braiding-threads go around the notched disk D and form the selvage of the braid. Others, like the one marked 6, are led around the disk E,throu gh the center of which passes the chenille,and thus they connect this to the braid. The disks A B C serve in the formation of the braid. According to Fig. 4 there are always two bobbins or threads going around disk D and one going around disk E, a switch being arranged at F to direct the bobbins accordingly. The threads l and 2 vpass around disk D, bobbin 3 goes around E, and 4 and 5 around D. Thread 6 goes around E,7and 8 have gone around D, and 9 around E, thread 10 having gone around E just before 1 had arrived there, and so on, so that the chenille is drawn quite close into the edge of the braid, covering the same all around, asseen from Fig. 2, and protecting it, while the bindingthreads themselves are also covered by the pile-threads of the chenille, and are so protected also against wear and tear.

Our new dress-protector also forms a nice ornamental edge for a dress, and being round it looks more like the protecting-cords which IOO were in use formerly, and it can be lnade in any color. It is advisable to use for forming the chenille-hairs a good quality of stiff Wool.

Ve are well aware that dress-protectors or skirt-facings of various designs have been made before, and We do not claim a dressprotector generally; but

What We claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

As an article of manufacture, a dress-protector consisting of a braid and a chenille at' tached to the braid and forming its edge at one side, said chenille being united to the braid by every third braiding-thread passing around its central thread and binding the chenille to the braid, the selvage of the braid being formed by the alternate braiding-threads, substantially as described.

ADOLF MANN. ERNST SCHAFER.

"Witnesses:

H. F. MERRITT, FR. SHADDIP. 

